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The Relationship between Iranian Maternal Verbal Responsiveness Styles and Child's Communication Acts with Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary in 13-18 Months Old Typically Developing Children
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Ashtari, Atieh; Samadi, Sayyed Ali; Yadegari, Fariba; Ghaedamini Harooni, Gholamreza – Early Child Development and Care, 2020
This observational study examined the Iranian mothers' interaction with their typically developing children aged 13-18 months during free play at home (n = 40). The first aim was to determine the main type of Iranian maternal verbal responsiveness. Another aim was to investigate the impact of concurrent prediction of maternal verbal responsiveness…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Verbal Communication
Language and Social Competence in Typically Developing Children and Late Talkers between 18 and 35 Months of Age
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; Frigerio, Alessandra; Rescorla, Leslie – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The present study examined the relation between language and social ability in a sample of 268 preschoolers aged 18-35 months. Expressive language was assessed with the Italian adaptation of the Language Development Survey (LDS), and Social Competence was assessed with the Questionnaire on Peer Interactions in the Kindergarten (QPI). Results…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Language, Linguistic Competence, Interpersonal Competence
Language Insights for Caregivers with Young Children
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Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
How to help babies and young children right from birth to become competent in talking as well as emergent literacy is illustrated by research findings as well as with specific clinical stories. Both kinds of knowledge can serve to galvanize parents and teachers to increase awareness of infant and preschool language development and the crucial role…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Caregiver Role
The Relative Importance of English versus Spanish Language Skills for Low-Income Latino English Language Learners' Early Language and Literacy Development
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Sonnenschein, Susan; Metzger, Shari R.; Dowling, Rebecca; Baker, Linda – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
The association between monolingual children's early language abilities and their later reading performance is well established. However, for English language learners, the pattern of associations between early language skills and later literacy is much less well understood for English language learners. This study examined language predictors of…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, English (Second Language), English Language Learners, Hispanic Americans
Accelerating Early Language Development with Multi-Sensory Training
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Bjorn, Piia M.; Kakkuri, Irma; Karvonen, Pirkko; Leppanen, Paavo H. T. – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
This paper reports the outcome of a multi-sensory intervention on infant language skills. A programme titled "Rhyming Game and Exercise Club", which included kinaesthetic-tactile mother-child rhyming games performed in natural joint attention situations, was intended to accelerate Finnish six- to eight-month-old infants' language development. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Stimulation